Clean Power Plan Information

The Supreme Court has issued a stay of the emission guidelines under the Clean Power Plan pending disposition of the applicants’ petitions for review in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Archived Clean Power Plan Documents

The archived documents below were generated from summaries of public comments (oral and written) and by the stakeholders group that met to discuss Clean Power Plan options for Virginia:

Clean Power Plan Stakeholders Group Documents

Various organizations submitted the documents below, which were circulated among the Clean Power Plan Stakeholder group:

Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) - Modeling a low-cost approach to Clean Power Plan Compliance for Virginia. January 2016.
AEE - A Performance-Based Approach to Allowance Allocation for Clean Power Plan Compliance. February 2016.
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) - Best practices in developing state lead-by-example programs and considerations for Clean Power Plan Compliance. February 2016.
ACEEE - Energy Efficiency and the Clean Power Plan: Steps to Success. February 2016.
AJW, Inc - Simplifying energy efficiency for states: Utilizing and incentivizing energy efficiency-related greenhouse gas reductions under the Clean Power Plan’s mass-based approach. December 10, 2015.
American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) and the American Wood Council (AWC) - Written comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the proposed Federal Plan Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Electric Generating Units Constructed on or Before January 8, 2014, Model Trading Rules; Amendments to Framework Regulations; Proposed Rule. January 21, 2016.
Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change - Environmental Justice State Guidance. January 2016.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - Guidance Principles for Clean Power Plan Modeling. February 2016.
IHS Energy - EPA Clean Power Plan: Potential market impacts. December 9, 2015.
Industrial Energy Consumers of America - How State Policymakers Should Address EITE Industries to Prevent GHG Leakage under a Mass-Based and Rate-Based Approach, While Complying with the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. March 24, 2016.
National Council for Air And Stream Improvement (NCASI) - Calculation of Emission Rate Credits from Non-Affected CHP. April 4, 2016.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) - MJ Bradley Compliance Tool, Utilizing Business-as-usual Changes to Achieve Rate-based Compliance and Mass-based Compliance including the New Source Complement. December 2015.
Spruance Genco - Talking points for CPP meeting on 02/19/16 at VADEQ. February 2016.
Synapse Energy Economics and Argonne National Laboratory - A Guide to Clean Power Plan Modeling Tools: Analytical Approaches for State Plan CO2 Performance Projections. February 1, 2016.
WestRock - Recommendations for the Treatment of Biomass under Virginia’s EPA Clean Power Plan Implementation Plan. April 2016.

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